Scott Horsley

Scott Horsley is a White House correspondent for NPR News. He reports on the policy and politics of the Obama Administration, with a special emphasis on economic issues, as the nation slowly recovers from the Great Recession.

Often, the best part of his job involves getting out of Washington: visiting factories in Michigan, talking with retirees in Florida, or hearing tales from the unemployment line in Colorado. Horsley jokes that he only tells stories that are about money. And every story is about money.

Horsley took up the White House beat after covering the presidential campaigns of 2004 and 2008, a role he'll play again in 2012. He reported from the Pentagon during the early phases of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Previously, Horsley worked as a business correspondent based in San Diego, where he covered fast food, gasoline prices, and the California electricity crunch of 2000.

Before joining NPR in 2001, Horsley was a reporter for member station KPBS-FM, where he received numerous honors, including a Public Radio News Directors' award for coverage of the California energy crisis.

He worked as a reporter for WUSF-FM in Tampa, Florida, and as a news writer and reporter for commercial radio stations in Boston and Concord, New Hampshire. Horsley began his professional career at NPR as a production assistant.

Horsley received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and an MBA from San Diego State University.